Election 2023

Here are the results of major races in the Nov. 7 local elections in New York and Massachusetts. Winning candidates are in bold type. A brief summary follows the results for each county.
Vote totals shown for Berkshire, Warren and Washington counties are final, official tallies that include absentee or mail-in ballots. The results for Rensselaer and Saratoga counties are election-night totals, the most recent available from county election officials as of Nov. 30. Columbia County’s totals are unofficial but are updated through Nov. 21.

 

MASSACHUSETTS

 

BERKSHIRE COUNTY

 

Pittsfield mayor
John Michael Krol ............................... 3,467 (37.3%)
Peter M. Marchetti ............................ 5,816 (62.7%)

 

North Adams mayor
Aprilyn Carsno .......................................... 163 (8.6%)
* Jennifer A. Macksey ........................ 1,728 (91.4%)

 

Pittsfield voters chose Marchetti, the City Council president and a councilor for most of the past two decades, to succeed two-term Mayor Linda Tyer. Marchetti easily defeated Krol, a former councilor who had cast himself as the candidate of change.
In North Adams, Macksey, the first woman to serve as mayor, cruised to a second term.

 

NEW YORK

 

COLUMBIA COUNTY

District attorney
Ryan M. Carty (R, C) ........................... 9,502 (47.4%)
Christopher Liberati-Conant (D) ....... 10,538 (52.6%)

 

County judge (2 seats)
Joyce Crawford (R, C) ........................................ 8,115
Robert “Bob” Gibson (R, C) .............................. 9,034
Brian J. Herman (D, WF) ................................ 9,706
Michael C. Howard (D, WF) .......................... 10,957

 

County coroner
Russell M. Gonzales (D) ................... 10,084 (51.6%)
* Kevin Marchetto (R, C) ................... 9,442 (48.4%)

 

Ancram supervisor
Bonnie J. Hundt (D) .............................. 369 (48.0%)
James E. MacArthur (R) ...................... 398 (51.8%)
Will Weiss (i) ................................................. 2 (0.2%)

 

Chatham supervisor
* Donal Collins (R, i) ............................ 900 (51.0%)
Christopher W. Spencer (D, i) .............. 865 (49.0%)

 

Stuyvesant supervisor
Lee Jamison (D) ...................................... 269 (38.0%)
* Ron Knott (R, C) ............................... 438 (62.0%)

 

In the marquee countywide race, voters chose Liberati-Conant, an assistant state attorney general, to to succeed longtime Republican District Attorney Paul Czajka, who didn’t run again. Liberati-Conant defeated Carty, Czajka’s chief assistant prosecutor, after a campaign in which he called for reforms including the creation of specialized domestic violence and sex crimes bureaus within the DA’s office.
Democratic candidates also swept the other contested countywide races, winning two open County Court judgeships and defeating Marchetto, who was appointed to his position as coroner earlier this year.
But Republicans prevailed in the only three town supervisor races that were contested this year, including in Ancram, where MacArthur will succeed Democratic incumbent Art Bassin.

RENSSELAER COUNTY

 

County sheriff
Kyle Bourgault (R, C) ....................... 19,798 (52.2%)
Brian G. Owens (D, i) ........................ 18,163 (47.8%)

 

Brunswick supervisor
* Philip Herrington (R, C) ................... 2,707 (61.4%)
Thomas J. McGrath (D) ....................... 1,702 (38.6%)

 

Grafton supervisor
* Ingrid Gundrum (D, C) ...................... 507 (58.3%)
Frank W. Lewandusky III (R) ................... 362 (41.7%)

 

Hoosick supervisor
Gary Contessa (D, i) ................................ 423 (31.7%)
* Mark E. Surdam (R, C) ....................... 912 (68.3%)

 

Poestenkill supervisor
* Keith A. Hammond (R, C) .................. 693 (44.5%)
Tom Russell (D) .................................... 863 (55.5%)

 

Troy mayor
Carmella R. Mantello (R, C) .............. 4,473 (54.8%)
Nina M. Nichols (D, WF) ..................... 3,686 (45.2%)

 

County voters chose Bougault, an administrative sergeant in the county sheriff’s deparment, to succeed two-term Republican Patrick Russo as sheriff. Bourgault defeated Owens, a retired Troy police chief.
In Troy, Mantello prevailed in a spirited race to succeed term-limited Mayor Patrick Madden (D).

 

SARATOGA COUNTY

 

Malta supervisor
* Mark Hammond (R, C) ................... 1,601 (46.7%)
Cynthia C. Young (D) ........................ 1,828 (53.3%)

 

Moreau supervisor
Jesse A. Fish Jr. (D, i) ........................ 2,948 (77.6%)
* Theodore T. Kusnierz Jr. (R, C) ......... 851 (22.4%)

 

Town of Saratoga supervisor
* Ian C. Murray (R, C) ......................... 706 (55.6%)
James M. Sullivan (D) ............................ 563 (44.4%)

Saratoga Springs mayor
* Ronald J. Kim (D, WF) .................... 3,172 (38.0%)
Christian E. Mathiesen (i) .................. 1,420 (17.0%)
John Safford (R) ............................... 3,752 (45.0%)

 

Saratoga Springs county supervisor (two seats)
Gordon Boyd (D, WF) ...................................... 4,037
Michele D. Madigan (D, i) .............................. 4,464
* Matthew E. Veitch (R, i) ............................... 4,871

 

Saratoga Springs public safety commissioner
Timothy Coll (R, i) ............................ 4,072 (49.2%)
Kirsten M. Dart (i) .............................. 2,396 (29.0%)
* James A. Montagnino (D) ............... 1,806 (21.8%)

 

Wilton supervisor
* John J. Lant (R, C) ......................... 1,799 (54.6%)
Toni Sturm (D) .................................... 1,494 (45.4%)

Republican challengers toppled Democratic incumbents in the races for Saratoga Springs mayor and public safety commissioner amid Democratic divisions over police reform. Both races featured third-party candidacies fueled by the issue -- and also by public feuding between incumbents Kim and Montagnino.
Safford will become the city’s first Republican mayor in a decade, and the results will give the GOP two of the five seats on the City Council, replacing what had been a 5-0 Democratic majority.
Elsewhere in the county, voters in Moreau resoundingly booted Kusnierz, a three-term incumbent who was seen as an ally of Saratoga Biochar Solutions, a company that has proposed building a local plant to turn sewage sludge into fertilizer. Fish, a former town water superintendent, was backed by the anti-biochar group Moreau United.

WARREN COUNTY

 

County clerk
Carrie Black (D, i) ............................. 7,774 (52.9%)
Emily McCabe McCarthy (R) ............. 6,915 (47.1%)

 

Glens Falls 2nd Ward county supervisor
Haley Gilligan (D) ................................ 329 (63.3%)
* Peter V. McDevitt (C) ........................... 191 (36.7%)

 

Glens Falls 3rd Ward county supervisor
Magen MacDavid (R, i) .......................... 251 (43.8%)
Nancy Turner (D) ................................. 322 (56.2%)

 

Glens Falls 5th Ward county supervisor
Nicholas Collins (R) ............................. 123 (31.3%)
* Bennet Driscoll (D) ........................... 270 (68.7%)

Queensbury county at-large supervisor (four seats)
James Dobkowski (C) ........................................... 888
* Nathan Etu (R) ............................................... 3,154
Robin Larkin (D) .............................................. 2,565
* Brad Magowan (R) ...................................... 2,883
Michael Parwana (D) ........................................ 2,326
Brady Stark (R, i) .............................................. 2,753
David Strainer (D, C) ..................................... 3,570
* Michael Wild (R, C) ..................................... 3,332

WASHINGTON COUNTY

County clerk
Linda J. Boyce (R, C) ........................ 4,859 (54.7%)
* Stephanie C. Cronin (i) ................... 4,025 (45.3%)

 

Greenwich supervisor
* James Nolan (D) .............................. 787 (54.8%)
Don Ward (R) ........................................ 650 (45.2%)

 

Hartford supervisor
Barbara S. Beecher (C) ......................... 140 (27.8%)
Scott Hahn (R) .............................,....... 364 (72.2%)

 

White Creek supervisor
Renee McEvilly (R) ................................ 291 (34.2%)
Lance Allen Wang (D) .......................... 560 (65.8%)

Cronin, the incumbent county clerk, lost her seat after being snubbed by county Republican leaders who’d backed her in two prior elections. Boyce, a social services caseworker for whom Fort Ann Supervisor Sam Hall acted as spokesman, pledged to reopen the county motor vehicles office to walk-in appointments.
— Compiled by Fred Daley